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Original Articles

Celebrity critiquing: hot or not? Teen girls’ attitudes on and responses to the practice of negative celebrity critiquing

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Pages 461-476 | Received 12 May 2016, Accepted 04 Mar 2017, Published online: 17 May 2017

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